Responsible DS+AI Speaker Series: Karina Rider

Karina Rider is a postdoctoral researcher with the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England. As an ethnographer of tech critique, they research how civic organizations attempt to design digital technologies and economies for better futures, as well as what happens when such efforts fail. They are currently researching how civic and political groups are contesting Google’s proposed mega-campus in downtown San José, California.

Publications:

• Rider, Karina. 2022. “Building Ideal Workplaces: Labor, Affect, and Identity in Tech for Good Projects.” International Journal of Communication 16: 1-18.
• Rider, Karina and S.L. Revoy. 2022. “Centering Race in Analyses and Practices of Countersurveillance Advocacy: Mythologies of the Racialized Other in the Crypto Wars.” In Privacy: Algorithms and Society (ed. M. Filimowicz). New York: Routledge.
   

In the Responsible Data Science and AI Speaker Series, we discuss topics such as equity, fairness, biases, ethics, and privacy. The presentations and discussions take place on Fridays from 9:00-10:00 a.m. Central Time on Zoom. The event is open to the public, and everyone is welcome to attend! To join a session, go to the current week's session, click the "access" link, and then the "PARTICIPATE online" button. Recordings of past talks can be found next to "access" if available. This series is hosted by the iSchool's Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS). If you have any questions, please contact Jana Diesner.

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